Here is something called Recipes for Kids with CF:
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<br />Below are some of my thoughts (from an email I wrote yesterday)on the good points and bad points of some of the recipes:
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<br />I just wanted to remark that these recipes use a LOT of bacon. I love bacon but I avoid it when my lungs are inflamed. Bacon can be hard on the lungs and I have to be in okay shape to eat it. My son wcf, who is much healthier than I am, can eat a lot more of it than I can. On days when my lungs bother me and my kids are making bacon for dinner, I sometimes just cook potatoes or organic noodles in the bacon grease but I don't eat any bacon. Weird as it might sound, I find that bacon grease is a fat that I tolerate well, along with coconut oil and organic butter. I can occasionally have organic olive oil but not too often.
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<br />I fundamentally disagree with the current thought that "people with CF need high fat, high calorie foods". I have done much better by worrying about good nutrition and doing a lot of research on food chemistry.
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<br />Some good things about the recipes:
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<br />Lots of them seem to contain onions. Onions can be good support for the lungs -- though I personally don't tolerate raw onions too well because they tear up my stomach. I generally go for slightly cooked, kind of "stir fry" level of cooked. It preserves the medicinal value of the onions for the lungs but helps protect my stomach.
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<br />Garlic is another great thing with medicinal purposes. I am seeing that in some of these recipes. That's a great idea for a pwcf if they will eat it.
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<br />The Alfredo Pesto Pasta has walnuts in it! Walnuts are wonderfully high in Omega 3 oil. I ate them regularly at one time while working hard on getting healthier. Totally approve of adding walnuts to the diet.
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<br />If you are going to do pie crusts (like for quiche), there is nothing fundamentally wrong with that. I would recommend you do some research to find a healthy oil that works well for your kid with CF and make the crust from scratch so you have control over the ingredients. I don't go for high fat foods. I also don't go for low fat. I have found that the single most important thing is that the fats or oils be ones I tolerate well. For me, that includes organic butter, organic coconut oil, bacon grease, and sometimes organic olive oil. I do better with sunflower seed oil in store-bought snacks than I do with peanut oil. I try hard to avoid peanut oil because I do poorly with it and I limit corn oil. I also try hard to avoid soy bean oil and canola oil.
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<br />A lot of these recipes would be fine in my book with the following modifications:
<br />Use Celtic sea salt instead of table salt (for example: for cooking the noodles).
<br />Substitute healthy oils where needed.
<br />Choose organic ingredients as much as possible, such as organic sugar and organic noodles.
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<br />Personally, I see nothing wrong with heavy whipped cream. I love butter fat and used to get in trouble as a little girl for picking up the stick of butter and taking a bite out of it. I recently had a serious crisis develop where I was concerned that I would end up in the ER. Then I realized I hadn't been getting my organic butter all week because we hadn't had time to cook certain things from scratch. So I had my son bring me some butter and I just ate butter. I stabilized quickly and was able the clear up the problem within a couple of days or so.
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<br />FWIW: Here are a few recipes I personally use and do well with:
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